Use of Sick Leave for Family Sample Clauses

Use of Sick Leave for Family. 12.8.5.1 In cases of illness of a family member, an employee’s sick leave entitlement for the year can be used to attend to the illness of a spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child.
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Use of Sick Leave for Family. A bargaining unit member shall be allowed to use his/her accumulated sick leave in accordance with the provisions of this article to attend to his/her own personal illness or illness of any member of his/her immediate family. “Immediate family” for the purpose of sick leave shall be defined as spouse/domestic partner, child, parent, person for whom the bargaining unit member is the legal guardian, and any person who resides within the bargaining unit member’s household and qualifies as a dependent under the IRS definition. Sick leave days may also be granted for the serious illnesses of other family members upon approval of the Superintendent or his/her designee.
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Use of Sick Leave for Family. A bargaining unit member shall be allowed to use his/her accumulated sick leave in accordance with the provisions of this article to attend to his/her own personal illness or illness of any member of his/her immediate family. “Immediate family” for the purpose of sick leave shall be defined as spouse/domestic partner, child, parent, person for whom the bargaining unit member is the legal guardian, and any person who resides within the bargaining unit member’s household and qualifies as a dependent under the IRS definition. If use of sick leave is anticipated or develops into a period in excess of three (3) consecutive work days, the Member may be required to provide a medical statement to Human Resources and complete the forms necessary to determine whether the member is entitled to Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) benefits. The medical statement must include a statement of the nature of the illness or disability and an estimated return to work day. If a Member anticipates a continuing need to use sick leave on an intermittent basis for a single illness or disability that is likely to extend beyond three intermittent days, the member may be required to provide a medical statement to Human Resources and complete the forms necessary to determine whether the member is entitled to Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) benefits. The medical statement must include a statement of the nature of the illness or disability and an estimated duration of the condition or illness. If a Member’s use of sick leave displays a pattern of abuse including but not limited to exhaustion of the Member’s sick leave, repetitive use of sick leave to extend a weekend or vacation period, repetitive late entries of sick leave in the attendance system etc., the Member may be called to a meeting to discuss his or her sick leave usage. If the Member cannot satisfactorily explain his or her sick leave pattern, Human Resources may require a medical statement for sick leave usage in the future. The Member may ask an Association Representative to attend such a meeting but it will be the Member’s responsibility to arrange Association attendance. Sick leave days may also be granted for the serious illnesses of other family members upon approval of the Superintendent or his/her designee. 1. Any bargaining unit member on sick leave, having exhausted his/her own sick leave, personal leave days, vacation and after having waited three (3) unpaid days, may request to participate in the sick leave bank. All ...
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Related to Use of Sick Leave for Family

  • Use of Sick Leave Sick leave is available the first day of the pay period following the pay period in which it was earned, and is taken in units of one-tenth (1/10) of one hour. Use of sick leave is subject to the approval of the appointing authority. Upon request of an employee, the appointing authority may allow the substitution of three (3) or more days of sick leave for paid vacation, provided the employee furnishes a doctor's statement or other satisfactory evidence that the employee was ill or injured for three (3) or more consecutive days.

  • Abuse of Sick Leave Misuse of leave, violation of orders, directives, or contractual requirements concerning the use of sick leave and other forms of leave used in lieu of sick leave are cause for disciplinary action.

  • Uses of Sick Leave a. Sick leave shall be accrued before being taken, provided that an employee who participates in a sick leave pool shall not be prohibited from using sick leave otherwise available to the employee through the sick leave pool. b. Sick leave shall be authorized for the following: i. The employee's personal illness or exposure to a contagious disease, which would endanger others. ii. The employee's personal appointments with a health care provider. iii. The illness or injury of a member of the employee's immediate family, at the discretion of the supervisor. Approval of requests for use of reasonable amounts of sick leave for caring for a member of the employee's immediate family shall not be unreasonably withheld. "Immediate family" means the spouse and the grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children, and grandchildren of both the employee and the spouse, and dependents living in the household.

  • Donation of Sick Leave 8.10.1 On a case-by case basis and with mutual agreement between the Association and the District, any bargaining unit member may donate five (5) days (40 hours) of accumulated sick leave to another bargaining unit member who has suffered a long- term, non-industrial related illness or injury and who will exhaust all fully paid leaves. The employee suffering from such illness or designee must request, in writing, donations of sick leave from bargaining unit members only, through the Personnel Office. Requests shall be made prior to the exhaustion of all fully paid leave. Donation of sick leave will not be retroactive. 8.10.2 The Personnel Office will send out the notification of the request for donations of sick leave. The request will be sent for posting on all CUEA bulletin boards and the CUEA President notified of the request. All donations of sick leave will be voluntary with no personal solicitation of donors allowed. The names of any bargaining unit members donating sick leave under this provision will not be made public. 8.10.3 Only bargaining unit members who have a minimum of fifteen (15) days (120 hours) of accumulated sick leave remaining after donating five (5) days (40 hours) of sick leave under this provision will be permitted to participate in this program. Employees eligible to donate sick leave will do so on a District approved form and must submit that form to the Personnel Office. 8.10.4 The maximum amount of sick leave that may be donated to any one person requesting donations under this provision will be equivalent to sixty (60) days. 8.10.5 Donated sick leave will be utilized for the specified employee in the following manner: (A) donated sick leave will be assigned a usage number. The first donated sick leave received by the Personnel Office will be the first sick leave used by the beneficiary. As sick leave is used by the unit member requesting it, the leave time will be charge against the unit member donating the sick leave. (B) if the employee returns to work prior to using all donated days, unused sick leave will be returned to the bargaining unit member donating the sick leave. 8.10.6 Up to an additional twenty (20) days (160 hours) of donated time may be requested in writing to the Assistant Superintendent, Personnel Services by the affected member or his/her immediate family. In this case, Section 8.10.5 procedures will be put into effect. 8.10.7 When all paid leaves of absence have been exhausted, and the unit member is unable to return to work, in lieu of resigning the unit member may elect to do one of the following: take a personal leave without pay pursuant to Section 8.5 or Article VIII for not to exceed the remainder of the school year in which the leave occurs, or retire if eligible pursuant to the provisions of the State retirement system.

  • Accumulation of Sick Leave The unused portion of an Employee's sick leave shall accrue for her future benefit, up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days.

  • Use of Service Each Party shall make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that its Customers comply with the provisions of this Agreement (including, but not limited to the provisions of applicable Tariffs) applicable to the use of Services purchased by it under this Agreement.

  • Use of Other Leave (a) An employee may elect to use annual or long service leave credits for some or all of their absence on defence service, in which case they will be treated in all respects as if on normal paid leave. (b) The Employer cannot compel an employee to use annual leave or long service leave for the purpose of defence service.

  • Accrual of Sick Leave a. A full-time employee shall accrue four (4) hours of sick leave for each biweekly pay period, or the number of hours that are directly proportionate to the number of days worked during less than a full-pay period, without limitation as to the total number of hours that may be accrued. b. A part-time employee shall accrue sick leave at a rate directly proportionate to the percent of time employed. c. An employee appointed under Other Personal Services (OPS) shall not accrue sick leave.

  • Transfer of Sick Leave Any teacher shall be entitled to transfer sick leave credit from 14 other Florida school districts with the restriction that at least one-half (1/2) of the valid 15 accrued leave shall be established in The School District of Xxx County, Florida.

  • Paid Sick Leave For those jurisdictions that have passed or will pass legislation requiring Paid Sick Leave, Paid Sick Time will be billed back to Client at the straight-time bill rate for all hours taken by any Consultant assigned to Client. This section is not applicable until the effective date of such legislation has been reached.

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